After hearing Eden's words, the other members of Sweet Bullet did not dare linger. After thanking her, they turned and fled.
Faced with monsters that would carbonize them the instant they touched them, they were truly terrified. They were only teenage girls.
Their lives had only just begun. They did not want them to end here.
But Nodoka Toyohama did not leave with the others. Instead, she looked at the gorgeous figure before her, her eyes filled with admiration—the same admiration she had felt as a child when she saw Mai Sakurajima on television.
Only far stronger!
She did not dare hope that she could achieve what the woman before her had achieved someday. After all, she was the uncrowned queen of art!
But she wanted to move in that direction.
"Are you Miss Eden?"
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Eden had been observing the rift in space when she heard Nodoka Toyohama's voice. She found that not only had Nodoka failed to leave with the others, but she had recognized her... and asked such a question.
"Miss Eden, what exactly are these monsters...?"
Without waiting for Eden to confirm it, Nodoka Toyohama had already decided that the woman before her was the world-famous superstar. She then curiously asked about the monsters.
For some reason, standing beside Eden... made her feel safer than fleeing now.
Especially after Eden's violin performance, her fear was no longer as overwhelming.
"Noise..."
"Noise? Noise pollution?"
Nodoka Toyohama froze at Eden's answer. She did not quite understand what Eden meant. What did this have to do with noise?
"Those monsters are called Noise."
"The monsters are... Noise?"
Those monsters were called Noise? Noise pollution, or something else?
But Eden did not explain much more. These monsters were difficult to deal with using ordinary methods.
Especially before they had fully